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Phone:  662-325-9413
Email:  jzhang@cfr.msstate.edu

address:
Franklin Center, Room #113
Department of Forest Products
Box 9820
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9820

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Education:

• Purdue University Ph.D., Wood Science
• Purdue University M.S., Wood Science
• Nanjing Forestry University, PRC B.S., Wood Engineering

Research Interests:

• Product engineering and strength design of furniture
• Natural fiber-based polymer composites and wood-based nano-composites
• Non-destructive evaluation of wood and wood-based composites and their structural components

Teaching Areas:

• FP 4223/6223 - Furniture Production I
• FP 4233/6233 - Furniture Production II
• FP 4423/6423 - Mechanical Properties of Wood

Research / Extension Websites:

• Engineered Wood Products
• Franklin Furniture Institute
• Furniture Research
• Wood Utilization Research Center

Graduate Students

• Samet Demirel
• Yicheng Du
• Onder Tor
• Can Tu
• Han Yu

2009
Erdil, Y.Z., A. Kasal, J. Zhang, H. Efe, T. Dizel. 2009. Comparison of mechanical properties of solid wood and laminated veneer lumber fabricated from Turkish beech, Scotch pine, and Lombardy poplar. Forest Products Journal 59(6):55-60.

2009
Xue, Y., Y. Du, S. Elder, K. Wang, J. Zhang. 2009. Temperature and loading rate effects on tensile properties of kenaf bast fiber bundles and composites. Composites Part B: Engineering 40(3):189-196. Download

2009
Zhang, Y., H. Toghiani, J. Zhang, Y. Xue, C.U. Pittman Jr. 2009. Studies of surface-modified wood flour/polypropylene composites. Journal of Materials Science 44(8):2143-2151. Download

2009
Zhang, Y., J. Zhang, J. Shi, H. Toghiani, Y. Xue, C.U. Pittman Jr. 2009. Flexural properties and micromorphologies of wood flour/carbon nanofiber/maleated polypropylene/polypropylene composites. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Engineering 40(6/7):948-953. Download

2008
Dai, L., J. Zhang, F. Quin Jr. 2008. Lateral and tensile resistances of glued face-to-face and end-to-face joints in pine plywood and oriented strandboard. Forest Products Journal 58(3):50-54.